5 Metal Chops You Need To Know ( Drum Lesson)

Faster Hands Feet (in 10 days) Ash Pearson from Revocation is ready to shred with some heavy chops every metal drummer should have in their arsenal: 1. Double bass flourish You might play this at the end of a thrash beat or use it instead of a tom fill. Roll on the snare, then move to 8th notes on the cymbals while you play 16ths on your feet. 2. Sextuplet fill The phrase is RLRLFF. Experiment with it try it between your snare and toms, adding splash accents, and whatever else you think would make it sound even more awesome. 3. Hand to foot swap Start with 16th notes on your hands over 8th notes on your feet, then switch to 8th notes on hands and 16ths on feet. Its a great note value exercise and credit goes to Thomas Lang for this one. 4. Hammer blast note value swap Keep your hands blasting in unison and match them with your feet. Partway through the exercise, double the notes on your feet while keeping your ha